Course Resources:

Files -- Distribution point for course-related files (PDF (do you need the plug-in?), Word, Matlab, Maple, etc.).

EC130 Discussion Group -- A place where the class can communicate beyond the classroom.

Digital Design Tools -- Links to tools mentioned in Katz (the course text) and supplements for Logicworks.

Miscellaneous Interesting Stuff --History of computers, photos of
microprocessor chips, ...

Course Description:

Digital systems have played a dramatic role in technology development for the last half century, and continue to play an ever-expanding role in new technology -- high-definition television (HDTV), cellular phones and pagers, automotive electronics, and palm-top computers, just to name a few. Manufacturers of integrated circuits keep finding new ways of cramming more and more transistors into a silicon chip, so the performance of digital systems continues to improve while the cost continues to fall. Digital systems are employed in virtually all electronic equipment today!

EC130 will introduce you to the basic building blocks of digital system -- logic gates, combinational logic, and sequential logic. In addition, you will learn design methods that will help you to convert a system specification into a real system implementation.